Surely Pacific don't choke AGAIN?

eeiu, surely?

Did G2 only get 2 more rounds than 100T did against Heretics in a BO5?

How would that even work? I swear there aren't enough buttons on a controller for Valorant. You need buttons to shoot, ADS, 4 for you abilities, crouching, jumping, swapping weapons, slow walking, bringing up the scoreboard, pausing and reloading, which I'm pretty sure is more than a controller has. Unless the game isn't compatible with controller, in which case I doubt it'll do well and may lose money in the long term

Why does he twitch his crosshair so much? It looks like he's constantly quaking from nerves

Nah Boaster crying wasn't cuz of his passion for the game, it was because he knows that FNC have massively disappointed for the second time this year and got flat out embarrassed by FUT

If he goes back to Loud at the same time as pANcada I'll genuinely cum

Me when I need to finish high school (my mentality is awful)

Boostio - 1-14, 0% HS

Boo - 11-5, 34% HS

13-1 to Heretics

They still probably would've lost regardless of Boostio's performance but if he was playing like he usually does it probably wouldn't have been a single guardian shot away from being a 13-0

Brother PLEASE if we lose to G2 a third time I am jumping in a volcano

If they win then yeah probably at the moment, if not then they join PRX in the 'multiple grand finals but no wins' club and Pacific is confirmed cursed region

It'll be interesting to see how the map veto goes for 100T vs TH. Both teams have perma bans (100T on Lotus and TH on Ascent) and maps that they're the best itw on that they're certain to pick if left open (100T on Bind and TH on Breeze). So the first 2 bans and map picks are fairly easy to predict. That leaves Icebox, Breeze and Split. TH are probably favoured on Icebox so I can see them banning it. Which begs the question of which map TH will ban. Both teams have a pretty good Split, but I'd probably favour 100T on it, but TH also haven't played Breeze in a while and lost pretty decisively against FNC last time they played it (although they did 13-4 FNC on it the time before that)

Either way should be a banger that goes all 3 maps

I think they make top 6, maybe top 4 depending on how hard kaplan been cooking. They aren't winning though. Heretics with their full roster and roided up Neon butt fuck everyone

NAVI, Heretics, Karmine Corp, FUT, BBL, maybe even Fraudnatic

LEV d00mbr0s, make it happen. He can't be out of a job while his fraudulent brother gets to stay in VCT

whzy is about to drag his team to Champions whether they like it or not just to give FNS more of the business and send that old man back to Twitch

ANGE1 on smokes = human sacrifice for Pontus and fartpiss, zero smokes execs

ANGE1 on initiator = kinda mid, does his job while calling glorious Valorant, sometimes just solos teams that are collectively half his age

So surely the same logic could apply to Redgar, the other Omen tp psychopath IGL? I'm pretty sure he's said before that he doesn't like playing smokes and prefers playing Sova. hoody can play smokes pretty well, I'm sure Cloud could shift around a bit to become a flex player, Fit1nho can be full time sentinel and purp0 stays on duelist

The return of Sexgar may be upon us if they figure this out

Mini on smokes IGL is the solution

UK would probably be up there for EMEA ngl. Keiko on duelist, ardiis on flash initiators, soulcas on scan initiators, Boaster IGL and benjyfishy Sentinel. benjyfishy and ardiis mega vibes merchants so they can probably help ease the mood and allow Keiko and soulcas to hit their peak form more often and solve a bit of their inconsistency, plus ardiis and soulcas is a massive step up from Enzo and Jamppi in terms of setup so Keiko would have a lot more help. Then benjyfishy the clutch god, and Boaster the most accomplished IGL in EMEA. And ofc Mini and neilzinho as the coaches to cook some absolute Michelin star setplays. They'd be a scary team

Me when I can beat 2022 Shopify Rebellion (Also technically top 8 because OpTic and XSET)

Either Cryo or something

The once chance you have to make a convincing argument for a 100T player (Cryo) and you glaze Brazil? Did they Clockwork Orange you during your ban? What happened?

After Champs when MiniBoo ends the whole event having only played Neon with a 1.37 rating

Ite nvm he's cursed to be complete dogwater untill Riot hit him with the complete redesign button

Unless of course FNS gives Victor the free reign to bring back the good old 2022 giga int

They lost Sunset once in regular season to fucking BBL of all teams but other than that I think they're undefeated on it

Fr, I feel like he's right on the cusp of being mid, picked one in ten games on Split in double duelist with Raze purely for vulnerable nade combos if they made his vulnerable not affect team mates and made his c ability wider and able to be stopped like Harbour cascades

I can practically FEEL him salivating at the mouth right now, Heretics Sunset may now genuinely be unbeatable with him cooking on Neon

Nah bro have you seen his Skye?

Nah, his time has come. ardiis and benjyfishy have cleared him as the funny British people

I have an awful feeling EG win this

Goonstio will destroy E(d)G(e)

Nah not happening. There's no way we're gettin past 100 Thieves

I would love that, but I know it's just a pipe dream

That's the Fortnite clout

Heretics and Karmine Corp are teams built for the long run. This year is looking like a developmental stage for them and next year I expect them to really contend internationally. And even then Heretics have made top 4 and were 2 rounds away from utterly curbstomping for G2. Feeling quite good about them.

NAVI has been robbed by the format twice. If they were at either Masters I'd expect them to outperform pretty much every EMEA team.

FUT are a weird one, half the time they look incredible the other half they look awful.

FNC need changes imo.

Overall not the worst in the world, next year I think they'll actually be Barack

I think Gen.G deserve to win ngl, partly because of the shit they're getting from Chinese fans and partly because they're fuckin incredible

MY BEAUTIFUL BOY IS WO0TING ALL OVER THEM

Nah Liquid need to give him a starting spot

Difficulty impossible

I don't necessarily want FUT and TH to win, I just want G2 to lose tbh. Boring ahhhh 3 fans total team

I'm still praying my second favourite team Heretics can make it to upper bracket finals and at least give Gen.G or 100T a run for their money, maybe even pull of the upset

Just realised I have an exam on the day of the upper bracket final. God damn it

I genuinely thought this was the official announcement, came, and then clicked on and realised it wasn't. All the cum proceeded to return to it's place of origin, waiting for the day my designated LOUD pANcada nut can finally be released

I think it'll be a giga banger, could go either way. I think it goes all three maps regardless of who wins

I think if you give Valorant a few more years it'll get there. Valorant came out in 2020, CS has been around since the 90's. The fact Valorant has had even slightly comparable crowds up to this point is pretty impressive all things considered

Which players nowadays, if any, will be on the first Astralis of Valorant, aka the first team to go on a super long dominant winstreak where they are completely unchallenged?

It's clear that FNC can't return to their 2023 level of play without some changes. Ever since champs last year they've been in the mud, and haven't shown many signs of improvement. They failed to qualify for Madrid, looked mid in the regular season and just bombed out of Shanghai without winning a match. Even when they won EMEA the only thing that looked somewhat convincing about their whole playoffs run was the lower bracket final against FUT. They dropped a map against fucking Liquid. Then a Karmine Corp roster full of inexperienced rookies choked two massive leads against them, with FNC basically skirting by on experience differential. Then they got manhandled by Heretics. Then had one convincing game against FUT. Then Heretics choked a 2-0 lead in maps against them and once again lost to experience diff, all the while Leo and Alfajer were pulling generational deadlifts to bail them out constantly.

And it's not like we can say let them cook, give them time to improve. Because that's also what everyone else is doing. Heretics and FUT have the chance to massively level up at Shanghai, NAVI were already way better than FNC and have time off to work of themselves, VIT and KC are some of the most dangerous teams with time to cook their strat book, even ass teams like KOI and BBL were improving near the end of the season. The domestic competition is starting to leave FNC in the dust and there's a very real chance that FNC miss out on champs and honestly I don't think they deserve to go.

This roster needs changes to return to their status as the best team in the world. There's no 2 ways about it

Not yet. This year is the development stage. But if they keep the exact same roster and coaching staff for next year then they're going to be world beaters and could contend for trophies

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